so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore.

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved.

You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping.

Your soulmate can also be your downfall.

It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.